Orientation: What Are You Stepping Into?
- What is coaching according to ICF?
- ICF core competencies and code of ethics
- Coaching vs. other helping modalities
- Introduction to intuitive life coaching
Module 1: Foundations of Intuitive Coaching
Session 1: What Is Intuitive Life Coaching?
- Intro to intuitive life coaching
- What is the Intuitive Life Coaching Method™?
- The foundation for laser-focused coaching
- The laser-focused mindset
- The coaching stance
- Your identity as a coach
- Psychological safety in coaching
- Ethical foundations and boundaries in coaching
- The Success Model
- Time management
- Eisenhower Matrix
- Intuitive time management exercises
Session 2: What Are You Listening For?
- Listening as a coach
- The three levels of listening: subjective, objective, intuitive
- Acknowledgment and validation
- Ethical use of intuition in listening
- Somatic and intuitive awareness
- Staying grounded while listening
- Establishing your intuitive baseline: your intuitive calling card
Session 3: What Does an Intuitive Coaching Session Look Like?
- The language of coaching
- T-GOAL: establishing the coaching agreement (topic, goal, objectives, why the goal is meaningful, what the client needs to address or resolve)
- The structure of a coaching session: clarifying the focus, exploring beneath the narrative, integrating insight, translating awareness into action
- Following the client’s lead
- Anatomy of a coaching session
- Applying T-GOAL within the intuitive session arc
Session 4: What Makes a Good Question?
- The art of the question
- Why ask; becoming a “master of asking”
- The top ten asking mistakes
- Types of coaching questions: open vs. closed, neutral vs. leading, probing
- Questions within the intuitive session arc
- The power of silence in coaching
- Creating safety through questions
- Sharing information in coaching
- Intuition in the body
Module 2: Building Coaching Skills
Session 5: What Is the Real Goal?
- Empowering the client
- Clarifying the coaching outcome
- Surface goals vs. deeper goals
- Goal setting: AIM SMART
- Options and action steps
- Creating effective change
- Intuitive goal setting
Session 6: What Is Really Going On?
- Stretching the client
- Identifying obstacles
- Overcoming obstacles: seven strategies
- From awareness to change
- Don’t believe the client
- Understanding human behavior
- Thoughts, feelings, and actions
- What’s beneath the problem?
- When something “doesn’t add up”
Session 7: What Moves the Client Forward?
- Inner and outer blocks
- Breakthrough laser coaching
- 4-step buy-in process
- Intuition and pattern awareness
- Somatic signals of resistance
Session 8: What Keeps Showing Up?
- Breakthrough laser coaching review
- Creating awareness
- Understanding resistance
- When insight isn’t enough
- Strength-based reflection and resource activation (3-step process)
- Solution-focused work
- Integrating intervention within the session arc
- Using themes to see the big picture
- Recognizing repeating themes
Module 3: Aligned Action and Intuitive Perception
Session 9: What Is Aligned Action?
- Lasering in on what matters most
- Decision making
- Motivation and habit change
- Aligned vs. forced action
- Embodied decision making
- The role of discomfort in growth
- Safety nets and sustainable risk
- The pain/gain model of action
Session 10: What Sustains Aligned Action?
- Creating shifts
- Creating momentum with the client
- The gap: what’s missing?
- Tolerating and coping
- Building momentum in coaching
- When action loses alignment
- Maintaining alignment
- Somatic intuition
Session 11: How Does Intuition Speak?
- Intuition in coaching
- Clair-based perceptual channels
- Ethical boundaries in intuitive coaching
- Spirit guides
- Moving forward and closing the conversation
Session 12: How Do I Use Intuition Responsibly?
- Permission-based sharing
- Sharing observations and intuition
- Practicing intuition in coaching
- Taming Your Gremlins by Rick Carson
